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If you could only listen to five songs for the rest of you life - What would they be?

If I had to choose right now, in order of selection

Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor -Johann Sebastian Back
William Tell Overture -Gioachino Rossini
Here is Gone -Goo Goo Dolls
Breathe -Michelle Branch
Dancing Mad -Nobuo Uematsu

6 would probably be Rhapsody in Blue -George Gershwin
7 would be Oye Como Va -Santana
 
gandalfe said:
I hadn't realized before how much PIL was influenced by Alan Vega and Martin Rev, AKA Suicide.

I know the feeling. Well, not entirely, my second (and current) wife is still alive, and I wouldn't really care if my first wife died, but sometimes I listen to songs that remind me of my son's death, just to drive thru the darkness and hopefully come out the other side.
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Understood, gandalfe, understood.
 
Rubashov said:
Its gotta be this version of Wild is the wind tho

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I couldn't NOT have Bowie. Interestingly, he based his version on hers after meeting her, and was the only cover he recorded during this period of his career. Apparently he met her and recorded this as a tribute to her.

If I were going to pick a Nina Simone song (I adore Dr Simone and would have loved to meet her (I'm only 3 degrees of separation away!)) it would probably be either Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, or, if I wanted to do a song she wrote, Mississippi Goddamn. Or Feeling Good.

If Nina Simone covered your song, like Johnny Cash, it became hers, you no longer owned it.
 
Also, pedantically, I have to mention that the assignment was 5 songs, not 5 specific versions of a song, so technically what I picked was Wild Is the Wind, not David Bowie doing Wild Is the Wind. I could listen to Johnny Mathis' version, or George Michael's, or Cat Powers', or or or...
 
gandalfe said:
Also, pedantically, I have to mention that the assignment was 5 songs, not 5 specific versions of a song, so technically what I picked was Wild Is the Wind, not David Bowie doing Wild Is the Wind. I could listen to Johnny Mathis' version, or George Michael's, or Cat Powers', or or or...
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Cat Power's version is sublime...
 
gandalfe said:
George Michael's is technically perfect, but fairly bloodless. There's more emotion in one line of Bowie or Simone's version than in his whole recording. It's kind of surprising, actually.
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What's white and sliding down a men's room walk?

George Michael's latest release...
 
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